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Test your knowledge of energy and its role in our climate.

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Video: total sea level change between 1992 and 2014, based on data collected from the TOPEX/Poseidon, Jason-1 and Jason-2 satellites.
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Video: 22-year sea level rise
Oceanographer Josh Willis discusses the heat capacity of water, performs an experiment to demonstrate heat capacity using a water balloon and describes how water's ability to store heat affects Earth's climate.
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Quiz: Carbon and the climate
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Quiz: Carbon and the climate
Quiz: Carbon and the climate
NASA scientists are working to understand if our land and ocean can continue to absorb carbon dioxide at the current rate – and for how long.
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Infographic: Earth's carbon cycle is off balance
Video: A visualization of the annual Arctic sea ice "minimum" for each year from 1979 through 2019.
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Video: Annual Arctic sea ice minimum 1979-2019 with area graph
Video: Winter temperatures are soaring in the Arctic for the fourth winter in a row.
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NASA studies an unusual Arctic warming event
Graphic: A simplified animation of the greenhouse effect.
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The Greenhouse Effect
Graphic: The Greenhouse Effect
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Video: NASA's vantage point to view Earth
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Quiz: Our home planet
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Quiz: Our home planet
Quiz: Our home planet
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Home Frontier
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Video: Using observations from NASA's Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO-2) satellite, scientists developed a model of the behavior of carbon in the atmosphere from September 1, 2014 to August 31, 2015.
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Video: NASA scientists release the first new global map of Earth at night since 2012.
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Video: Images created from GRACE data showing changes in Greenland ice mass since 2002.
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Greenland ice loss 2002-2016
Video: Greenland ice loss 2002-2016
An animated gif that puts short-term global temperature trends in context.
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Nope, Earth Isn't Cooling
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How much do you know about glaciers and ice caps?
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Quiz: Ice and glaciers
A super high-definition view of how carbon dioxide in the air moves around the world with the winds.
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NASA scientists say 2013 tied for the seventh warmest of any year since 1880, continuing a long-term trend of rising global temperatures.
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Video: Global Temperature Variation

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